This product comes with everything you need to start growing: 12x Rockwool cubes, 12x netcups, two seed satchets of your choice, and a 50mL bottle of hydroponic nutrients. Bring the outdoors inside with the EcoKitchen! The perfect system for indoor growing. Grows much faster than conventional gardening, experience massive yields of freshly grown herbs and veggies in no time. All the joy of gardening without the hassle! Refill the water every couple of weeks and harvest as needed. You’ve never tasted food this fresh. Our innovative indoor gardens don’t use soil. Your plants grow in water, just add nutrients. Powerful grow lights with automatic timers give your plants the perfect light dose. A water aeration pump keeps roots healthy. Bring the outdoors inside with the EcoKitchen! The perfect system for indoor growing. Grows much faster than conventional gardening, experience massive yields of freshly grown herbs and veggies in no time. All the joy of gardening without the hassle! Refill the water every couple of weeks and harvest as needed. You’ve never tasted food this fresh. Our innovative indoor gardens don’t use soil. Your plants grow in water, just add nutrients. Powerful grow lights with automatic timers give your plants the perfect light dose. A water aeration pump keeps roots healthy. This product comes with everything you need to start growing: 12x Rockwool cubes, 12x netcups, two seed satchets of your choice, and a 50mL bottle of hydroponic nutrients. Beware - if you buy the EcoKitchen you'll be wowing crowds of guests and will need to polish up your hydroponics pitch to explain how it works to all your friends and family!  Why You Will Love It! Neville from the Garden Gurus takes you through why you will love the EcoKitchen! Super water efficient The EcoKitchen roots float directly in the water that they grow in, this results in high water efficiency - reducing the amount of maintenance that the system needs! Refill on average once every 3 weeks. Faster & higher yields Experience higher yields and faster growth as the EcoKitchen provides the perfect nutrient balance and light exposure that your plants need to grow. Convenience at your fingertips Modern design fits in most kitchens or living rooms - just metres away from your plate. Save the trip to the supermarket and harvest fresh herbs when you need them! Reduce food miles By growing food in your own home, you reduce the distance food travels to get to you - resulting in a fresher meal on your table and fewer emissions from food miles! Yay environment! How Much Can You Grow? Tap below to see how much you can grow: Lettuce: On average harvest 2.4 supermarket servings of lettuce every week (1 serving = 55g). Using just 3.6 litres of water/week, $1.60 of electricity and $1.29 of rockwool and nutrients. Perfect for making a delicious cos chef's salad! Basil: Over the life of the plant, on average harvest 4 supermarket servings of basil every week (1 serving = 29g). Using just 12 litres of water/week, $1.60 of electricity and $3.24 of rockwool and nutrients. Perfect for making a heartwarming Thai chicken and basil stir-fry! Coriander: Over the life of the plant, on average harvest 3 supermarket servings of coriander every week (1 serving = 16g). Using just 6.25 litres of water/week, $1.60 of electricity and $2.43 of rockwool and nutrients. Perfect for making mouthwatering vegetarian carrot, black bean and coriander fritters with smoky avocado salsa! Dill: Over the life of the plant, on average harvest 2.4 supermarket servings of dill every week (1 serving = 15g). Using just 6 litres of water/week, $1.60 of electricity and $1.82 of rockwool and nutrients. Perfect for making tasty salmon escalopes with dill and avocado salad! Specifications High-performance full spectrum LED grow lights with two light settings: white and red light, or white, red and blue light. An integrated timer that operates on a set timer that runs 14H on/10H off. Built-in pump that provides aeration and nutrient circulation for the roots of your plant. 7 Litre water reservoir lets you grow and grow and grow before you need to re-water your plants! Easy setup which can be done in less than 5 minutes! Specifications Dimensions: 38 cm x 38 cm x 32cm (roughly the size of a milk crate!) Product Weight: 2.2 kg Energy Usage: Monthly energy cost* ~ $3.10 *Assumes operation for 18 hours per day, with electricity costs as average Australian prices ($0.25/kWh). Whats in the box? Instruction manual 12x Rockwool cubes 12x Re-usable net cups Water Aeration Pump Product Basin and Light Panel Power Supply: AC to 24V DC Power adapter (Australian Outlet) 50mL hydroponic nutrients for herbs and leafy greens. 2 Packets of seeds of your choice included Features LED Grow Lights The lights themselves replicate the wavelength of light that plants need to grow. This wavelength is usually a small band of blue light between 400 and 500 nm, and red light between 600 and 700 nm which when combined result in a purple glow. The white light LED diodes in this product emit a lot of blue light, and the red lights provide the red light. When combined it provides all the light that most plants need to grow! See our FAQ for more on how growlights are different to normal lights Hydroponic Nutrients There are 17 essential elements required for plant growth. Three of these are carbon, hydrogren and oxygen (which the plant gets from water and air), the rest are macronutrients (Nitrogen, Potassium and Phosphate) and Micronutrients (Calcium, magnesium, sulfur, boron, chlorine, iron, manganese, zinc, copper, molybdenum, and nickel). Most fertilisers only have the three macronutrients at best. In comparison our Hydroponic nutrients contain 14 essential elements required for plant growth! All you need to do to use it is mix it in with water and watch as your plant grows! You can find way more detail on how hydroponic nutrients work in our faq. Rockwool Growing Medium The plant is held in rockwool - which is the product of a molten rock that has been heated and spun like fairy floss. Rockwool provides uniform oxygenation for a plant's roots, as well as a stable medium for the plant to be secured by. Germinating seeds in rockwool has a 90% success rate if you make sure to wet the seeds! Once the roots grow out of the rockwool, they simply float in our hydroponic nutrient water and grow. providing you with soil-free growing that makes this product perfect for your kitchen! This EcoKitchen has 12 rockwool growing pods! So you can grow a variety of your favourite herbs and leafy greens such as lettuce, basil, coriander, parsley, rocket and more! All you need to get started are seeds and nutrients of your choice! Assembly If you've ever setup somethign that's flatpacked then this will be a walk in the park for you! All you need to do to setup the EcoKitchen is screw in the wooden panels with the allen key provided, add in your rockwool cubes to the netcups, plant seeds, add water and nutrients and you're good to go! Maintenance There isn't too much maintenance required - on average you will only need to re-fill water and nutrients every 2-4 weeks. When the water runs low, refill it and add two scoops (scoop provided) of the hydroponic nutrients provided into the water basin and mix! Make sure you mix the nutrients in correctly - as it won't work if it's not dissolved! If anything goes wrong - troubleshooting is easy, the best way to get back on track is to throw our the old nutrient water solution (into the garden or some other plants) and start again with fresh water and nutrients!